cruel to be kind

I arrived late at the first day so day two was my first day at the congress. When asked why I am here my basic answer is: To meet people (again) which I know from IRC and Usenet like 10 …

Over the next days you will find me in Berlin at the last congress of the Year of the infamous Chaos Computer Club. Besides a very interesting program. I am looking forward meeting some old friends – like really …

Through the whole bruhaha of Techchrunch UK Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher now have reappeared under Vecosys (what a web 0.5 name btw).

And the one thing which gets me excited? It seems as if Sam actually has been listening: …

Thanks to Jacob Share for reminding me that there where pictures on my disk waiting to be sent out!
You can find them as usual under my flickr account or more specifically under my Paris 2006 set.…

I was still in the middle of putting together some texts from the more positive side for Leweb (especially the ones having more suggestions to improving a conference like this as it is worth noting) when i saw that Loic …

Ben try to get into 4 digits numbers – some more links will surely help ;)…

Jonas Luster has posted the entry I was waiting for as we did discuss this topic on Tuesday already. It is one of the reasons which did increase my uneasiness with Tuesday’s Leweb:

Secret Service dossier investigations on “aging carpenter”

If you have been to any major tech conference in the last years I assume you will recognise the following situation:

“We are proud that our sponsor XYZ will provide us with this gigantic connection to the Internet to make …

The question is valid of course, as besides my post about the really crappy part of the event there should be something good coming out of this event, shouldn’t it?

Well, I usually find something worthy even in things ugly. …

Dear Orange, if you try to set up a wifi on a high profile conference like Leweb I would suggest you talk to your technical department first if you are able to do such a thing.

Obviously you are …